[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by Afrosheen

JRutledge, please read my posts more carefully as the rhetorical questions you're asking are all judgment plays (traveling - judging whether the dribble started before picking up the pivot foot; closely guarded - whether the defender was within six feet and actively guarding the opponent; 10 seconds - on the referee who's counting; held ball - simultaneous possession with no one gaining sole possession after a tug). I purposefully bolded the word "rule" for a reason.

All those things can be incorrectly called because of the understanding or lack of understanding of the rules involved. And you just said something that shows either a lack of understanding of a rule or not knowing the rule on closely guarded.

Originally Posted by Afrosheen

As I just indicated all of these are judgment plays. I'm referring to rule mistakes. Examples of these include awarding the ball to the wrong team after an alternating possession; awarding a one-and-one when a team is not in bonus; taking away a team's privilege to run the baseline after a foul/violation on the throw-in on a made basket; not calling a violation on a free throw that doesn't hit the rim; awarding a basket on a field goal try with less than three tenths of a second remaining.

A backcourt violation involves both judgment as well as rules knowledge to make properly. That is no different then those other rules I referenced. And you even said something that is not part of the rule for closely guarded that could affect the judgment for making that call.

Originally Posted by Afrosheen

Take for example the last one. You're coming out of a timeout with less than three-tenths of a second remaining. Your partner is the trail and you are the lead. The play is in your partner's area, he sees a player catch the throw-in and immediately throw it at the basket and the ball goes in. He turns around to the table and indicates to the table to score the basket. What are you going to do?

That would depend, is the ball in my primary? Do I have the last second shot responsibility? Do I have a good look at the play?

Then again this is a last second shot situation, this is not a travel in the middle of the 1st quarter. I see more travels I disagree with and I have yet to see an official come to someone and ask an official about the rules in those cases, like calling a travel on a legal jump stop. Those are rules based too, not just judgment calls.

Originally Posted by Afrosheen

Again, I'm asking how to respectfully confer with your partner over a particular call. Not every call, not judgment calls where your partner is on top of the play, but on those rare calls where your partner might have missed something you definitely saw, or a call that was based on a misinterpretation or ignorance of a rule regardless of your position or what you saw. Maybe this time, on the eight page of this thread, people who have been criticizing me will finally understand my question.

I have told you how. And I would also add that not every call needs to have a conference when the only thing you are doing is asking questions. And some calls are much more acceptable to conference on, but those usually involve things like an out of bounds where it is very possible the ball is coming from different areas on the court and a partner can see who last touched it. Even then you do not ask a question, you tell your partner what you saw and let them decide if your information helps them make a call. And I am not criticizing you just to criticize you. If you have not noticed I was responding to Coach Bill's position on professionalism. You came in later to defend your original point, which I was not even being critical of again. You responded to me as if my comments to Bill was about you. That is fine, but I honestly have stated my opinion on this issue some time ago. You keep wanting to get validation that you were right. I guess that is fine, but there is a time and a place and your OP, that was not the time or the place.

Peace